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ANNEALING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hardening something by heat treatment

Synonyms:

annealing; tempering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("annealing" is a kind of...):

hardening (the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb anneal

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